Search for dissertations about: "conversation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 229 swedish dissertations containing the word conversation.
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1. Episodes in talk : Constructing coherence in multiparty conversation
Abstract : This study contributes to an understanding of how coherence can be assigned or constructed by participants in authentic multiparty conversational interaction. Coherence is analysed as a type of organisation relevant for the making of meaning in situated interaction, but also in retrospect from a third party's (or analyst's) perspective; it is both constructed and reconstructed. READ MORE
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2. From Interaction to Grammar : Estonian Finite Verb Forms in Conversation
Abstract : This study contributes to the research tradition of interactional linguistics. It demonstrates how interactional patterns and sequences of actions are, or emerge as, part of the syntagmatic structure of a language, and why the transitions from interaction to grammar as well as from content to function items, are to be regarded as gradual and continuous. READ MORE
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3. Conversation and Figuration from the Horizontality of the 2.0 Decade
Abstract : This thesis concerns the 2.0 decade, the decade when the social web started to develop. The main research objective is to contribute to our embedment in Internet technology in a conscious and livable way. The thesis is part of a general attempt to improve our understanding of the transformation taking place in the development of the web. READ MORE
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4. To fix what’s not broken : repair strategies in non-native and native english conversation
Abstract : The thesis investigates conversations involving native speakers and non-nativespeakers of English. The non-native speakers partaking in the study have a welldeveloped knowledge of the foreign language. READ MORE
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5. Language as social action : Grammar, prosody, and interaction in Swedish conversation : grammatik, prosodi och interaktion i svenska samtal
Abstract : This study contributes to a larger research programme that links grammar and prosody on the one hand with talk-in-interaction on the other. An underlying assumption of this study is that language is key to the organization of social action. READ MORE